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Until now Leonard had never known how his uncle - known as Jim - who survived the Battle of the Somme, had died.

He said: “My sister had the photograph of Jim but when she passed away it was lost. I hadn’t looked for it until now and thought I would try the library. When I trawled through editions of the paper there it was.

“I noticed that underneath the photograph was a letter, which had been written about a week after his 23rd birthday, one of the soldiers had found a letter in Jim’s pocket from my grandmother and so they returned it to her and wrote back.